General Affairs Division, Building Department, Tokai Regional Bureau of Postal Services, 3-2-5 Marunouchi, Naka-Ku, Nagoya- Shi 469-97, Japan

Y -- JAPAN: S16 CONSTRUCTION POC Tel 81/52/963-6326 FAX N/A product data a industry sector code: B detailed product description: construction Title: construction of the tokoname Post office building; site: 1- 37 sakae-machi, etc., Tokoname-Shi; summary: site area, 3,229 square meters; structure: reinforced concrete construction, three stories above ground, one story below ground; size: building area, 1,555 square meters; total floor area, 5,485 square meters; use: Post office facility; work: new building; construction period: approx. 15 months; main materials to be used: concrete, approx. 4,050 cubic meters; reinforcing steel, approx. 440 tons; sheet glass, approx. 550 square meters. C product specifications/technical data: N/a D quantity: N/a e U.S. dollar value: N/a F other information: N/a response data a response language: Japanese. B best way to respond: letter. C from manufacturers only: N/a D information desired from U.S. firm: N/a e primary buying factor: the lowest bid within the estimated price range. F other information: pre-screening required to be eligible for bidding. Pre-screening deadline: 15:00 pm, June 20, 1995. Bid documents must be obtained directly from the submitting Agency, not from U.S. Embassy. Payment in yen. A issuing Agency: Tokai Regional Bureau of Postal Services (ministry of posts and telecommunications) B financing Agency: same as above. C price of bid documents: N/ a D purchase bid documents by: 16:00 pm, July 20, 1995. E tender number required in all communications: N/a F performance bonds required: not required. G closed procurement procedure: N/a H bidding procedures: open competitive tender. I bid deadline: 14:00 pm, August 4, 1995. J other information: '' kensetsu kogyo shimbun'': 5/19/95. Eligible tender participants: 1) firms that do not fall under articles 70 and 71 of the cabinet order concerning budget, auditing, and accounting; 2) firms pre-qualified for open competitive bidding on building work by the Tokai Regional Bureau of Postal Services; 3) firms that score at least 1,450 points in building work in a formula calculated from bidding company's objective criteria at the time of application for qualification; 4) firms that have -- since 1990 as the main contractor -- actually carried out construction of a Post office building Or office building made of reinforced concrete Or steel-framed reinforced concrete and of at least 3,000 square meters total floor area. Note: Reconstruction projects and projects under construction are excluded, and only construction projects in which bidder has had a 30 percent Or greater share are eligible for review; 5) firms that can present an adequate plan for underground work; 6) firms that can assign to the construction site a full-time chief engineer Or engineering supervisor who meets the following criteria: a) is qualified as a certified first-class building supervisor Or architect; B) has since 1985 had experience with a project as described in item (4) above; and C) in the case of engineering supervisor, is qualified to supervise designated construction works; 7) firms not currently suspended from designation in the district of the Tokai Regional Bureau of Postal Services by the ministry of posts and telecommunications; and 8) firms not related by capital Or personnel to the contractors involved in this project. Post remarks Post contact/prepared by haomori approved by gtaevs Please send a copy of your response to: Commercial Officer (FCS TOP), American Embassy, Tokyo, Unit 45004, APO Ap 96337, Refer to TC393. Please note: All correspondence with the Awarding Authority and/or the Procuring Agency MUST be in Japanese.. (0142)

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